Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous